Boehner: 'The Conversation Ought to Start Today'

House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday afternoon during a news conference that negotiations on the debt ceiling "ought to start today."

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... I ... sure ... I mean our government houses test for the ... for a bill to fund our government and provide fairness to the American people under Obamacare ... each of those four bills was rejected by the United States Senate ... under the Constitution ... and our system of government ... we ask that they sit down and have conversation with us ... of the funding the government keeping it open ... and provide returns to the American people under Obamacare ... they refuse to do ... the Lord's revenues ... other Zambia negotiation here ... we can raise the debt ceiling without doing something ... about what's driving us ... to borrow more money into live beyond our means ... the idea the week to continue to spend money the we'd all head out ... and and give the bill the work is our grandkids ... would be wrong ... this isn't about me and frankly it's not about Republicans ... this is about saving the future for our kids or grandkids ... and all the way this is gonna happen ... is that in fact have a conversation ... so it's time to have the conversation ... not not next week not next month ... the conversation to start today ... and I'm hopeful ... about whether the president or Democrat leader